Guest Editorial: Special Section on Cyber-Physical Social Systems—Integrating Human into Computing

Abstract

The papers in this special section examine the human factors integration of cyber-physical social systems in computer applications. Human factors are becoming increasingly important in computing systems. A cyber-physical social system (CPSS), which incorporates human factors, encompasses not only cyberspace and physical world, but also human knowledge, mental capacity, and sociocultural elements. Rapid developments in cloud computing, smart grid, autonomous automotive systems, medical monitoring, process control systems, distributed robotics, and mobile networks are instigating a new paradigm shift in CPSS architectures, platforms and services by bringing improvement not only to the performance but also to the user experience in terms of the energy efficiency, reliability, security, and cost efficiency with human factors. The integration of cyber-physical systems and human social behaviors also provides a good opportunity to address challenges in human-centric technology development by using advanced technologies such as social computing, social system, and social networking.